tenant

英 ['tenənt] 美 ['tɛnənt]

解释

※ 提供单词"tenant"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

tenant 租客，租户

ten-,持有，握住，-ant,人。引申词义租客，租户。

tenant: tenant: [14] A tenant is etymologically a ‘holder’. The word comes from Old French tenant, a noun use of the present participle of tenir ‘hold’. This in turn went back to Latin tenēre ‘hold’, a descendant of the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch, extend’ (source also of English tend, tense, thin, etc). Also from Latin tenēre come English tenacious [16], tenement [14], tenet [17], and tenor, not to mention contain, continue, detain, maintain, obtain, retain, etc, while French tenir has additionally produced tenable [16], tenon [15], tenure [15], and probably tennis.
=> contain, continue, detain, maintain, obtain, retain, tenable, tenacious, tend, tenement, tenet, tennis, tenon, tenor, tense, tenure, thin
tenant (n.): early 14c., "person who holds lands by title or by lease," from Anglo-French tenaunt (late 13c.), Old French tenant "possessor; feudal tenant" (12c.), noun use of present participle of tenir "to hold," from Latin tenere "hold, keep, grasp" (see tenet). Related: Tenancy. Tenant-farmer attested from 1748.

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1. If you are a council tenant call the housing department about it.: 市建住房租户请就该问题致电住房部。

2. Landowners frequently left the management of their estates to tenant farmers.: 地主们经常将土地的管理交给佃农。

3. Mowing lawns and taking out the trash are jobs for the tenant.: 刈剪草坪、倒掉垃圾是房客该做的事。